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Between 13th and 16th of November, 2018, the 26th meeting of The General Conference on Weights and Measures will convene in Versailles, France. The Symmetry Magazine tells us that it is expected to cause a revolution in the definition of SI units. In 2012, I became somewhat loud while screaming "let us fix the value of Planck's constant" although I was recommending it more silently for decades. Last year, my goal finally got closer while plans to redefine one ampere were already around, too. According to Daniel Garisto, the seven basic SI units will be defined in ways that are...more »

"We Americans have a saying: "It's more important what you stand for than who you stand with." I do not rely upon peer opinion to decide what is right and what is wrong. I make those decisions for myself, and even if I discover that every other human alive chose differently, that doesn't mean I was wrong. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to choose sides. I have chosen my side. I am comfortable with my decision. I do not think everyone on my side is a saint, but I know that those on the other side are much, much worse. Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective ...more »

"And finally this question, the mystery of whose story it will be, of who draws the curtain. Who is it that chooses our steps in the dance? Who drives us mad? Lashes us with whips and crowning us with victory when we survive the impossible? Who is it that does all these things? Who honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us and who holds the key that can set us free? It's *YOU*......more »

A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File photo *WNU Editor*: The above picture is from this photo gallery ....* A picture and its story: Capturing the nine-month battle for Mosul *(Reuters)

*Defense One*: *Mosul: What the Decade’s Largest Battle Says About the Future of War* Here’s how Western-backed Iraqi soldiers helped break the Islamic State’s grip on a city of more than 1 million people — and what we can learn from it. The world’s largest military operation in nearly 15 years has been going on since October 2016: the drive on Mosul, Iraq. In this special feature, Defense One’s Ben Watson outlines the tactical innovations that U.S.-backed coalition forces used to break the Islamic State’s grip on a city of more than one million people. An animated battle map l...more »

Earlier this morning, we looked at Bernie's rally in Morgantown and at West Virginia GOP Senator Shelley Moore Capito's statement that she's willing to cast the decisive third vote to kill TrumpCare in the Senate if it comes to that. Recently released polling on the Senate version of TrumpCare by the Global Strategy Group and the Garin Hart Yang Research Group, is nothing but bad news for Republicans seeking reelection. How about this: "Senate Republican candidates take an approximately 30-point hit when voters learn they’re supporting their party’s bill to repeal and replace Obama...more »

Hopeful onlookers should recall how Bin Laden's death was followed by the expansion of terrorism, not its defeat. *July 11, 2017* (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - Reports have once again emerged that the supposed leader of the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed - possibly in a recent Russian airstrike in Syria. News confirming the death of Baghdadi, would appear to have significant implications regarding the terrorist organization and its now global-spanning operations stretching from North Africa, across the Middle East and Central Asia, and even re...more »

What is this man thinking? AP Photo/Ted S. Warren When Donald Trump gave the commencement address at Liberty University this spring, he told the graduates that “America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers.” Trump argued that, in America, “we don’t worship government; we worship God.” I suspect the president was unaware that the term “true believer” was made famous more than 65 years ago in Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.” Hoffer had no academic training, having worked mainly as a lon...more »

Some Americans and members of Congress have called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. What happens after a president is impeached? The vice president would take his place, but other parts of the government continue unchanged. That may not be a bad thing. However, partisan polarization can be magnified in the process. Many Americans already think the government is too divided along partisan lines and that corruption has reached the highest levels of government. These beliefs fuel declines in public trust and dissatisfaction with the government in general. In my book o...more »

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Get economic collapse news throughout the day visit http://x22report.com Wholesale sales tumble for the 3rd straight month in a row while inventories are building up. We have never seen QE until 2008 and we do not know what an unwind will look like or the discontinuation of QE, which could lead […]

Published on Jul 8, 2017 This July marks the third anniversary of the 51-day Israeli war on Gaza that left more than two-thousand people dead. Palestinians are still feeling the pinch of war as the reconstruction process in the coastal enclave goes on very slowly. Our correspondent, Halla Alsafadi has met with a displaced family. […]

US Military to Spend £50M on Digital BRAIN IMPLANTS to Create SUPER SOLDIERS by SEAN MARTIN, http://www.express.co.uk/ THE US military is ploughing $65million (£50million) into research which will one day allow them to plug human brains directly into the digital world. – The controversial program from the States’ armed forces will see them create software which could […]

Moscow May Expel About 30 US Diplomats, Freeze Some US Assets in Russia by https://sputniknews.com/ Russia may decide to expel about 30 US diplomats and freeze some US assets over the situation over the Russian diplomatic facilities closed down in the United States, media reported on Tuesday. – MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Two diplomatic compounds belonging to Russia […]

Ever More Official Lies from the US Government by Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopian novel 1984. – Consider the constant morphing of “the Muslim threat” from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to al-Nusra, to ISIS to ISIL, to Daesh […]

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) tells Larry why he believes America’s foreign policies present a bigger danger to the US than North Korea and that a radical reconsideration of the United States role in global affairs is needed. Paul also discusses Obamacare and why he thinks it has destroyed the […]

Published on Jul 11, 2017 A British radio station has been suspended after it broadcast more than 25 hours of lectures by a suspected Al-Qaeda recruiter during Ramadan that called for “holy war” and “encouraged violence.” end

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Spain has seen a sharp rise in migrants arriving from Africa this year – between January and June, up to 6,500 landed in the country, compared with 8,000 arrivals in all of 2016. end

Published on Jul 10, 2017 This is a clip from the Economist Vol. 306 from January 9, 1988. “THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, […]

A color guard of US and Chinese flags awaits the plane of China's President Hu Jintao at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland in this April 12, 2010 file photo. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File *Washington Free Beacon:* *China’s Intelligence Networks in United States Include 25,000 Spies* *Dissident reveals up to 18,000 Americans recruited as Chinese agents.* Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012, according to a Chinese dissident with clo...more »

Originally posted on Science Matters: ? https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/094/810/original/atmospheres-of-the-planets-vector.jpg It is often said we must rely on projections from computer simulations of earth’s climate since we have no other earth on which to experiment. That is not actually true since we have observations upon a number of planetary objects in our solar system that also have atmospheres.…

One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization has changed its name in an effort to appeal to a younger generation. The National Council of La Raza (NCLR)—known for its advocacy civil rights work on behalf of Hispanic communities—is now called “UnidosUS,” which is translated to mean “united.” The name change is an effort by […]

"Almost all Americans have had an intense school experience which occupied their entire youth, an experience during which they were drilled thoroughly in the culture and economy of the well-schooled greater society, in which individuals have been rendered helpless to do much of anything except watch television or punch buttons on a keypad. Before you begin to blame the childish for being that way and join the chorus of those defending the general imprisonment of adults and the schooling by force of children because there isn’t any other way to handle the mob, you want to at least c...more »

*"Beyond Hope"* by Derrick Jensen "The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re f****d. Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have—or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use, which means whatever tools will be ultimately ineffective—to try to protect some piece of ground, to try to stop the manufacture or release of poisons, to try to stop civilized humans from tormenting some group of plants or animals. Sometimes they’re reduced to ...more »

*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, * And no one has anything like them. *Over a thirty-year period ten Nimitz carriers were built. The last, George H. W. Bush, incorporated the latest technology, including a bulbous bow to improve hull efficiency, a new, smaller, modernized island design, upgraded aircraft launch and recovery equipment, and improved aviation fuel storage and handling.* *The Nimitz-class carriers are a monumental achievement—an enormous, highly complex and yet highly successful ship design. The ships will carry on the Nimitz name through the 2050s, with the entire class...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * Ford seems to be delivering on the promise of a more efficient carrier that will take naval aviation into the future. The United States Navy will commission the first of a new generation of aircraft carriers into service later this month on July 22. When she is commissioned, the future USS *Gerald R. Ford* (CVN-78) will represent the future of naval aviation and will be the most advanced and capable aircraft carrier ever built. With *Ford*’s imminent commissioning ceremony coming up later this month, the Navy invited *The National Interest* to previe...more »

*Ahmad Murid Partaw* *Security, Middle East* [image: An Afghan National Army officer holds an Afghanistan flag during a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Afghanistan October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood] If America does not take necessary action in Afghanistan, the country may once again descend into chaos, which will ultimately harm U.S. national-security interests. The Trump administration is considering to sending more troops as a sign of recommitment to the sixteen-year-old war in Afghanistan. The decision—which has been delegated to the Department o...more »

*Brent Ziarnick* *Security, Americas* [image: Guests look on from the terrace of Operations Support Building II as space shuttle Endeavour launches from pad 39A on the STS-130 mission early Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Flickr / NASA HQ PHOTO] The creation of the U.S. Space Corps should not be seen as a failure on the part of the Air Force. Matt Hipple should be commended for making a very astute observation about the future of military space operations. Visions of future sustained operations in space do indeed resemble classic naval operat...more »

*Rory Miller* *Security, Middle East* [image: A Palestinian man holds a Qatari flag during a rally in support of Qatar, inside Qatari-funded construction project 'Hamad City', in the southern Gaza Strip June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa] In a region where pride is prized above all else and trust is the most valued currency, many Qataris worry that both have been damaged beyond repair. Until a month ago, most of us living in Doha—expats and locals alike—believed that Qatar’s leaders were doing a pretty good job of turning their country into a vibrant city at the center of...more »

Kim inspecting defense detachments in an undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on May 5. KCNA/ via REUTERS *Alex Lockie, Business Insider*: *The US had a clear shot at killing Kim Jong Un on July 4 — here's why it didn't strike* When North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile in the early-morning hours of July 4, US military and intelligence personnel watched for a full 70 minutes, a source told The Diplomat's Ankit Panda. During that time, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smoked cigarettes and strolled around the launchpad under t...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:20 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) carried out a powerful attack against the Islamic State (ISIL) terror organization this week, targeting the latter’s positions inside the town of Qaleb Al-Thor. Led by the Qalamoun Shield of the 3rd Division, the Syrian Arab Army managed to liberate most of Qaleb Al-Thor after […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:05 A.M.) – A U.S. volunteer for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed during the battle of Raqqa this week, Kurdish activists reported on Tuesday. The U.S. national was identified by Kurdish activists as Robert Grodt (AKA ‘Demhat’) of California. Grodt’s death was confirmed by his family via social media on Tuesday. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) carried out a rare series of airstrikes over the eastern countryside of Lebanon’s Beqa’a Governorate, Tuesday, targeting the positions of Al-Qaeda linked rebels in the ‘Arsal Barrens. Beginning at dawn on Tuesday, Syrian jets were seen carrying out airstrikes over the western slopes of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:35 A.M.) – At least 400 civilians inside Raqqa city and the provincial countryside have been freed by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local activists reported on Tuesday. The 400 civilians have now been transferred to safe areas, where they will receive care from local NGOs and the PYD regime operating in […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

CFACT highly recommends showing this film to friends and neighbors. Marijm Poels is an honest man. The kind of person who can bring reconciliation through exposing the truth for all to see. We salute this work.

New Mexico has 3 congressional districts, a very Democratic one in the north (PVI is D+8), a very Democratic one in the center around Albuquerque (D+7) and a pretty Republican one in the south (R+5). Weak moderate Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham represents the Albuquerque district and she's running for governor. Ethically-challenged DCCC head Ben Ray Lujan represents the northern one and he's not going anywhere. But yesterday oil industry multimillionaire Steve Pearce, who represents the southern district, announced he's also running for governor, putting NM-02 into play for 2018....more »

*BBC*: *Russia's Lavrov threatens US over seized diplomatic mansions* Russia says it is "outrageous" that the US has not yet handed back two Russian intelligence compounds seized in the US under the Obama administration. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was "considering specific measures" in response, but did not elaborate. Earlier, unnamed Russian officials said Moscow was ready to expel about 30 US diplomats and seize US state property. In December the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats and shut down two intelligence compounds. *Read more *.... *WNU edit...more »

*"Lift Up Your Eyes"* by Paul Rosenberg "When was the last time you tasted the sublime? When did you last feel wonder? Can you remember feeling awed by something? These are things we need, if we are to thrive. They are fuel for the higher human abilities. If we lack them, as is currently endemic throughout the West, our higher abilities will lag. For lack of better terms we can call these feelings “upward movements of the heart,” and we are diminished when there is a lack of them. Without them we fail to develop our higher capacities and insights. We slide more and more toward beco...more »

*Fish farms in Pingtung* Chris Horton with an optimistic piece about the new skyscraper going up next to Taipei 101. I've always thought Taipei 101 was hideously ugly, and that without buildings around it, it is hard to get a sense of how tall Taipei 101 really is. So this new building is progress, of a sorts. This NYTimes report says the US apologized for confusing the PRC and the ROC (not "China and Taiwan" as the headline says)... A Chinese official said on Monday that the United States had apologized for a White House statement that misidentified China’s leader, Xi Jinping, as ...more »

Courtesy of Desperation Barbie's Facebook page: *Mama Grizzlies on the March! I'm Looking forward to joining Candy Carson, Missy Robertson and many other Mama Grizzlies as we march across America this September. Hope to see you there! --->* According to the website: *On September 23, 2017, HomeMakers for America, in partnership with conservative, faith-based and constitutional advocacy groups across the nation, will hold a Moms March for America! * *Moms and families will unite across the nation to promote a message of hope and decency as we stand for truth, family, freedom and...more »

Whilst the story of Donald Trump Junior's dealings with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is tangled, the facts show no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part. On the contrary he is the only person who can be shown to have acted straightforwardly and honestly in the whole affair. The post Donald Trump Junior and the Russian lawyer: non story and possible sting appeared first on The Duran.

*Cheryl Benard* *Security, Europe* [image: Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis/File Photo] Afghans stand out among the refugees committing crimes in Austria and elsewhere. Why? In 2014, when waves of refugees began flooding into western Europe, citizens and officials alike responded with generosity and openness. Exhausted refugees spilled out of trains and buses to be met by crowds bearing gifts of clothing ...more »

Moqtada al-Sadr visiting the tomb of his father Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr (The Private Office of His Eminence Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr) Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr is a revered figure in Iraq today in part because of his assassination in 1999, which was blamed on Saddam’s government. When he was alive it was a different story. He was a polarizing figure because of his relationship with the government and the other ayatollahs in Najaf and Qom, Iran. To help explain Sadr’s ideas and legacy is University of Haifa’s Professor Amatzia Baram. *1. Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr had a...more »

*Jack Watling, The Atlantic:* *How Can Iraq Rebuild?* *The dilemma is that it needs money—and will inevitably lose some to corruption.* On Sunday, Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq, visited Mosul to herald the success of his army’s nine-month struggle to recapture the city from the Islamic State. In a speech on state television the next day, he declared “the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which [ISIS] announced from Mosul.” Even as pockets of militants continue to hold out in the Old City, the government is now eff...more »

*Curt Mills* *Politics, Europe* [image: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer.] The new French wunderkind, seemingly unstoppable politically, hits his first public-relations flap as president. Emmanuel Macron, the new leader of France, is experiencing his first major controversy since becoming president in May. At a G-20 press conference, he characterized Africa’s problems as “civilizational” and lamented that women in many countries there are having “7 or 8 children....more »

*BBC*: *Mosul: Clashes continue as troops target IS 'holdouts'* Sporadic clashes have continued in the city of Mosul, despite the Iraqi government's declaration of victory against so-called Islamic State there. The US-led coalition supporting Iraqi forces said they were rooting out a "handful" of militants in the Old City. The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator said hundreds of civilians were probably also still trapped in the area. Lise Grande said they were mostly disabled people, the elderly and children separated from their families. *Read more *.... *MIDDLE EAST* Syrian Observ...more »

An open-air chapel set up by Catholic nuns to block construction of a natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania will be dedicated Sunday on a spot directly in the pipeline's proposed path. The ceremony, hosted by grass-roots opposition group Lancaster Against Pipelines, is called "Stand With the Sisters" and is in support of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a Catholic order of women in opposition to the pipeline. The Adorers own the land that the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline would cross. "It's not about money, it's about principle. And the nuns have a land ethic that says this Earth ...more »

Okay, I suppose I should take this as a compliment. Over the years, many folks have written to me about The Postman. Most of them grasp its core message — that any civilization-wide collapse would *not* be like the Mad Max genre cliché, featuring survivors who only hunker down in passive acceptance while a lone hero battles some grotesque villain and his mohawk-wearing thugs. No. Once their children are safe, only one other thing would be on the minds of most survivors. How much they *miss* *civilization* and desperately want it back. A glimmer — a spark — of lingering enlightenme...more »

Ross Douthat: In the end, impeachment is political, not legal, and the House G.O.P. probably won’t impeach for anything short of a transcript of a call between Trump and Putin in which the words “yes, I want you to hack their servers big-league, Vladimir” appear in black-and-white. And even then …. Douthat is right -- it's highly unlikely that a Republican House would vote to impeach even then, out of fear of the GOP voter base. We know from the polls that Republicans don't think the Trump-Russia story is a big deal, the latest evidence being a Vox/Survey Monkey poll: Before the la...more »

Photo: AFP Countercurrents, RINF, CounterPunch, Global Research The case surrounding the approval of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India is coming to a head on the back of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recommending approval. The final decision now rests with Harsh Vardhan, minister of the environment. As India's first commercial GM food crop, the concern is that it is in effect a Trojan horse crop and an unlawful attempt to impose GM food crops on the country. At present, the only GM crop planted in India is cotton. The government has stated that it would ...more »

By Bill Peacock Used to running roughshod over local citizens, i.e., exercising "local control," local government advocates are out in force trying to build dikes to redirect the coming tsunami of the Texas Legislature’s special session.

TAMPA, Fla. — A teenager is suing a University of South Florida fraternity, saying that a member sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious at a chapter party. The Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday that the girl filed suit against Pi Kappa Phi and its national organization last week. A USF member, 19-year-old Dillon LaGamma, […]

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A police detective was questioned for a third day Tuesday about the events at a Penn State fraternity house earlier this year that led to the death of a 19-year-old pledge who died after a series of falls during a night of heavy drinking. Lawyers for members of the now-shuttered Beta Theta […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Autopsy results show a Texas A&M University student whose body was found last year at his fraternity house died of an accidental drug and alcohol overdose. The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office says Sigma Phi Epsilon member Matthew Hayes of Beaumont was discovered unresponsive Dec. 6 in his bedroom. The Travis County […]

NEW YORK — First Amendment advocates are suing President Donald Trump, saying some of his critics have been unconstitutionally blocked from following him on Twitter. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The lawsuit says Twitter has become an important public forum for the […]

[image: undefined] If you haven't yet read the Bionic Mosquito's blistering refutation of "libertarian" neocon Cathy Young's Reason Magazine piece on why Russia is the ultimate evil that must be sanctioned and smashed, do yourself a favor and take the time to do so. In the Reason piece dissected by the Mosquito, Cathy Young -- a Russian immigrant -- slams Ron Paul and others with similar views on US/Russia relations (opposing Cold War 2.0 and NATO provocations on Russia's borders) as being "pro-Russia" (as opposed to anti-interventionist and anti-WWIII). Hers is the same garbage ...more »

[image: undefined] If you haven't yet read the Bionic Mosquito's blistering refutation of "libertarian" neocon Cathy Young's Reason Magazine piece on why Russia is the ultimate evil that must be sanctioned and smashed, do yourself a favor and take the time to do so. In the Reason piece dissected by the Mosquito, Cathy Young -- a Russian immigrant -- slams Ron Paul and others with similar views on US/Russia relations (opposing Cold War 2.0 and NATO provocations on Russia's borders) as being "pro-Russia" (as opposed to anti-interventionist and anti-WWIII). Hers is the same garbage ...more »

[image: undefined] If you haven't yet read the Bionic Mosquito's blistering refutation of "libertarian" neocon Cathy Young's Reason Magazine piece on why Russia is the ultimate evil that must be sanctioned and smashed, do yourself a favor and take the time to do so. In the Reason piece dissected by the Mosquito, Cathy Young -- a Russian immigrant -- slams Ron Paul and others with similar views on US/Russia relations (opposing Cold War 2.0 and NATO provocations on Russia's borders) as being "pro-Russia" (as opposed to anti-interventionist and anti-WWIII). Hers is the same garbage ...more »

[image: undefined] If you haven't yet read the Bionic Mosquito's blistering refutation of "libertarian" neocon Cathy Young's Reason Magazine piece on why Russia is the ultimate evil that must be sanctioned and smashed, do yourself a favor and take the time to do so. In the Reason piece dissected by the Mosquito, Cathy Young -- a Russian immigrant -- slams Ron Paul and others with similar views on US/Russia relations (opposing Cold War 2.0 and NATO provocations on Russia's borders) as being "pro-Russia" (as opposed to anti-interventionist and anti-WWIII). Hers is the same garbage ...more »

The Art of The Deal meets popcorn passing on an epic geo-political scale. The post Did Russia learn The Art of the Deal? The curious timing of Russia’s diplomatic retaliation appeared first on The Duran.

By Paul Homewood Turkey show that the Paris Agreement never was about anything else than money, as GWPF report: Turkey Threatens Not To Ratify Paris Climate Accord HAMBURG: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Saturday that his country would not ratify the Paris climate accord, speaking at the end of the G20 summit in Germany. […]

[image: seattle-passes-income-tax-on-rich-lawsuit-to-follow] The Seattle city council just passed an income tax targeting the rich, but it will quickly be challenged in court on the basis that it violates the state constitution and state law.

*Matt Purple* *Politics, Americas* [image: Donald Trump Jr. tours the arena at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich] Whatever Trump Jr. did, the numerous causes of Trump’s election cannot be reduced to some hacked emails and a fruitless klatch with a Russian lawyer. The irony here is that Donald Trump has probably been tougher on Russia than Barack Obama was. Ham-handed efforts at forming a joint cybersecurity unit aside, Trump has requested more funds for an American military buildup in eastern Europe. He’s bombed a Syria...more »

Big wins against ISIS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2017 What his Twitter-ness fails to comprehend is that though this IS a victory for the United States, it is NOT a victory for him. Courtesy of The Independent: *While the Iraqi armed forces staged an exhausting nine-month siege around the city of Mosul, the US-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria initiated by the former president appears to have proved successful in weakening Isis forces. * *The US and its allies, including but not limited to the UK, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey, also pro...more »

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Monster minimum or short solar cycle? Guest essay by David Archibald This recent post was on the fact that the Sun’s EUV emissions had fallen to solar minimum-like levels well ahead of solar minimum. The implication was that the Solar Cycle 24/25 minimum was either going to be…

Theresa May fails at politics. What some of us knew a few months ago is now common currency, thanks to the worst campaign in modern times and plunging the Tories into a hole so big they haven't even found the sides yet. And she carries on blundering along. Cosying up to the man you derided as useless and a terrorist sympathiser is a terrible look. With hope it will shake loose softer Tory voters, versus those clinging on because Labour's social democratic programme is a prelude to fully expropriated propertyless communism. Luckily for Theresa May, even the most...more »

Five 9th grade girls from Northern Jutland, Denmark, did a science experiment for biology class. The experiment involved growing cress seeds in two separate rooms. The result is a shocking lesson in the dangers of radiation from common electronic devices. Their method went like this— 400 cress seeds were divided between 12 trays. The trays

By Tim Faulkner ecoRI News staff The Navy intends to fire missiles, rockets, lasers, grenades and torpedoes, detonate mines and explosive buoys, and use all types of sonar in a series of live war exercises in inland and offshore waters along the East Coast. In New England, the areas where the weapons and sonar may be deployed encompass the entire coastline, as well as Navy pier-side locations, port transit channels, civilian ports, bays, harbors, airports and inland waterways. “The Navy must train the way we fight,” according to a promotional video for what is called "Atlantic Fl...more »

*“The U.S. State of War: July 2017”* by Nicolas J S Davies “This is the state of war in the United States in July 2017. The US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is now the heaviest since the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s-70s, with 84,000 bombs and missiles dropped between 2014 and the end of May 2017. That is nearly triple the 29,200 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq in the “Shock and Awe” campaign of 2003. The Obama administration escalated the bombing campaign last October, as the U.S.-Iraqi assault on Mosul began, dropping 12,290 bombs and missiles betwee...more »

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:40 P.M.) – Over 30 jihadist insurgents were neutralized on Tuesday as a new round of clashes broke out with entrenched soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA). Due to aerial sorties alone, an estimated 20 ISIS militants – including two confirmed field commanders – were wiped out by Russian and Syrian air […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:30 P.M.) – Failaq Al-Rahman published two short videos on Tuesday depicting rebel fighters deploying US-manufactured missiles against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the east Damascus suburb of Ayn Tarma. The first video shows the Free Syrian Army (FSA) group targeting a T-90 from afar with a TOW missile; fortunately for the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 P.M.) – A Syrian military source informed Al-Masdar News on Tuesday night that the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) claims regarding the downing of a fighter jet was false. “We have no record of any jet being shot down by militants in the Al-Badiya Region,” the source told Al-Masdar News. Earlier in the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:15 P.M.) – With huge gains bagged in eastern Sweida on Monday, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) took control of some 20 villages and hills in southern Syria. Upon pushing deep inside rebel interior lines, the SAA discovered what appeared to be a base constructed by American engineers. The outpost bore resemblance to […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:25 P.M.) – A military aircraft of the US Marine Corps Aviation service has crashed in Mississippi. The aircraft – a KC-130T – was reportedly on a transport mission from North Carolina’s Cherry Point Marine airbase to the US Navy’s El Centro base in California. According to a statement released by the US […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*ABC News:* *Witnesses describe scene of military plane crash: 'One of the worst fires you can imagine'* At least 16 people were killed on Monday after a military plane crashed into a soybean field in Mississippi’s Delta region, authorities said. The plane, a Marine Corps KC-130 aircraft, crashed Monday at around 4 p.m. in Leflore County, Mississippi -- about 85 miles north of Jackson -- near Highway 82, according to authorities. Investigators told ABC’s Mississippi affiliate WLOX that debris was found on both sides of the highway, which they said could indicate that the plane ma...more »

Based on Recent Rulings: Ten More Cases DismissedJuly 10, 2017By Water Protector Legal Collective Censored NewsA big win for water protectors last week, 10 of the cases arising from October 22, 2016 that were set to go to court on Thursday July 6 and Friday July 7, 2017 were dismissed. The 10 defendants were facing Criminal Trespass and Engaging in a Riot charges and seven of the 10 were

We have't talked about kakistocracies in a while. The simple definition of a word from the 1600s describes a state run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. Paul Krugman was one of many commentators to apply the word to the Trump Regime, writing in mid-January of this year that "[Trump is] surrounding himself with people who share his contempt for everything that is best in America. What we're looking at, all too obviously, is an American kakistocracy-- rule by the worst." The current Putin-Gate scandal's encroachment on poor Fredo Trump has brought the wor...more »

In a May 17 appearance on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, Prince made the case for an Afghan force managed by a contracting company on behalf of the US *Daily Mail*: *Trump aides ask military contractors including man who founded Blackwater to help make policy for Afghanistan* * Jared Kushner, and another senior advisor, Steve Bannon, asked Erik Prince and Stephen Feinberg to help form an alternative defense strategy in Afghanistan * Feinberg owns DynCorp International; Prince is the founder of Blackwater * Blackwater is a lingering stain in the United States' occupation of Iraq. *...more »

------------------------------ MSM, Still Living in Propaganda-ville July 6, 2017 *Exclusive:* The stakes in U.S.-Russia relations could not be higher – possible nuclear conflagration and the end of civilization – but the U.S. mainstream media is still slouching around in “propaganda-ville,” says Robert Parry. By Robert Parry As much as the U.S. mainstream media wants people to believe that it is the Guardian of Truth, it is actually lost in a wilderness of propaganda and falsehoods, a dangerous land of delusion that is putting the future of humankind at risk as tension escalate...more »

The Obama Administration's lies (crafted mostly by Hillary Clinton) to "justify" a US attack on Libya were grotesque and the "liberation" of that country created a living hell on earth for the very citizens we were supposed to be saving. After six years of chaos and a 2012 attack on a US installation in Benghazi, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a policy shift on Libya that will bring permanently-stationed US troops into the country. How does yet another overseas US military mission square with President Trump's campaign promise to put America first? We discuss in to...more »

By Paul Homewood From the Telegraph: Just 100 companies are responsible for 71pc of greenhouse gases since 1988, report finds Jon Yeomans 10 July 2017 The fossil fuel industry has expanded “prodigiously” since 1988, the CDP says The Chinese coal industry and stock market debutant Saudi Aramco have been named as […]

I think BBC Newsnight has provided the first ground-level look at the US base near Qarah Qawzaq, Syria. 36.649576 38.301993 pic.twitter.com/P5JDJ0ysoj — Jeremy Binnie (@JeremyBinnie) July 11, 2017 *WNU Editor*: This U.S. base is deep in Kurdish controlled territory .... and if the above picture is any indication, it is open for big aircraft to use. *Update: *Satellites Reveal Secret U.S. Bases Emerging in the Desert (David Axe, Daily Beast)

Classical Renaissance Space Energy-Flux Density New International Economic Order Video of VXIVT0XBpEg Robert Baker presents a terrific pedagogy on Lyndon LaRouche's economic principle of Energy-Flux-Density as it relates to agriculture. The future of farming and the pursuit to eliminate hunger from the planet depends on mankind's continued development of its uniquely creative mind. The spin off technologies of the space program are revolutionizing farming around the world, from GPS technology and automation, to soil analysis, planting and harvesting. With growing cooperation between...more »

I have always imagined a future that is free of disease. However, we continue to suffer from diseases such as malaria, cancer, and AIDS for which there is no known cure. To make matters worse, other diseases such as poliomyelitis that were once considered to be eradicated are returning. Recall the success of the vaccine developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk (1914-1995) to combat this scourge, but poliomyelitis is still endemic in Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Egypt. read more

Here's my statement and the full email chain pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017 Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017 Courtesy of Reuters: *Presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Russian government support for his father, according to an email chain released o...more »

*The Guardian:* *British man and two Americans killed fighting Isis in Syria* Exclusive: Luke Rutter, from Birkenhead, died in attack on Raqqa, in which Robert Grodt and Nicholas Warden were also killed. A British man has been killed alongside two Americans fighting against Islamic State in Syria. Luke Rutter, 22, from Birkenhead, was fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) when he died last Wednesday evening during an ambush in a suburb of the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, his Kurdish commanders said. The YPG announced his death in a statement that described him as...more »

I told you yesterday that Donald Trump and his enablers have begun to move beyond the notion of alternative facts -- they now seem willing to acknowledge the same facts we do, even the ones we think are obviously damning, but they treat those facts as if they prove innocence. It's happening again today. *The New York Times* had a story in the works about emails exchanged by Donald Trump Jr. and his pal Rob Goldstone, who was setting up a meeting between Junior and a lawyer connected to the Russian government, and Junior tried to preempt the story by releasing the emails himself. The...more »

*TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017How to talk pork to the people:* Long ago and far away, we walked around Baltimore with a friend who was on his way to Vietnam. Because he later became well-known, we won't mention his name. But his wife, Tipper, was also there that day. Along with our mutual friend, Name Withheld, we walked around Baltimore on a cold, oncoming winter day in late 1970, chating about this and that. (They'd all driven up from D.C.) Our friend's father had just been defeated in a campaign for his fourth term in the Senate. It was a famously scurrilous campaign, with this sena...more »

By Kevin Roberts, Brooke L. Rollins As Gov. Greg Abbott officially called for a special session yesterday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation unveiled the “Legislator’s Guide to the Issues: Special Session Edition,” focusing on three main policy themes of the special session: empowering Texas families, defending local liberty and promoting statewide reform.

*Sandra Erwin* *Security, * Will the drama ever end? It is a question that has nagged the Pentagon for years: At what point will the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter be out of the woods? Developing the world’s most advanced fighter jet has been a hard, expensive slog for the Department of Defense. But as the design and engineering phase of the F-35 approaches the finish line and many kinks appear to have been ironed out, the $400 billion program is bringing a new set of headaches. The Pentagon is trying to ramp up production and bring new aircraft into the military fleet at a faster p...more »

[image: texas-professors-frivolous-concealed-carry-lawsuit-tossed-due-to-lack-of-standing] One can be assured of the bankruptcy of an argument, such as the arguments by three Texas professors that their rights are being impinged by a law that allows concealed carry on campus, when the argument fails its first test: coherency.

*The Statesman/IANS:** Iraq must stop IS 2.0, says US commander* The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against the Islamic State (IS) terror group is not over, despite a "historic" victory in Mosul, the media reported on Tuesday. Lt Gen Stephen Townsend told the BBC late Monday there were still IS fighters in Iraq. "If we're to keep IS 2.0 from emerging, the Iraqi government is going to have to do something pretty significantly different," he said. "They're going to have to reach out and reconcile with the Sunni population, and make them feel like their govern...more »

(Editor’s Note: Everyone deserves access to water- check out this story about true love.) After villagers in the Washim district of Maharashtra’s drought-hit Vidarbha refused access to water to a local woman, her husband took it upon himself to build his own well. RELATED ARTICLE: Solar paint can create hydrogen power from sunlight and water vapor

Once a young lady has her first menstrual cycle, the ObGyn expects to see her and if not then, certainly by the time she is 18 years old. And thus begins the annual “lady days ritual,” as I call it. RELATED ARTICLES: Women flocking to wellness because modern medicine still doesn’t take them seriously Stanford medical

We are lucky to have a first-hand account of just how UNDERREPORTED vaccine injuries are. According to an E.R. nurse calling themselves GuerillaRN: “As an E.R. nurse, I have seen the cover up. Where do you think kids go when they have a vaccine reaction? They go to the E.R. They come to me.” GuerillaRN

*Washington Post:* *Victory in Mosul leaves survivors reeling: ‘We got our city back, but there is nothing for me in it’* MOSUL, Iraq — As Iraq’s prime minister prepared to declare victory against the Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, millions of leaflets fluttered through the skies with a promise from the government to its people that the city would never be alone again. Across the country, the party had already started. There was dancing in the streets of Baghdad. In the southern city of Basra, fireworks crackled late into the night. Defeat in this northern city is a heavy blow...more »

Iraqi security forces are still fighting to flush the last ISIS fighters from Mosul's Old City a day after it was declared liberated (pictured, a captured jihadi). Damadam.ir *Daily Mail:* *Captured jihadis are paraded for the cameras in Mosul as US commander warns Iraq must stop ISIS 2.0 emerging from the ashes* * Iraqi forces are still trying to flush out fighters from Old City a day after liberation * Airstrikes pounded sites where ISIS traps or fighters are thought to be hidden * Half-naked jihadis were marched through the streets after being captured * Meanwhile top US commande...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:20 P.M.) – After weeks of relentless assaults on the rebel-held district on Ayn Tarma, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has managed to liberate a significant portion of the suburb and after a very recent gain is now on the verge of driving a wedge between it and the suburb of Jobar. Reports […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) – Firefights have erupted between the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Turkey-led forces in the Afrin region of Aleppo Governonate. The clashes come after both sides shelled one another with artillery yesterday. According to Kurdish sources, Turkey-led militants made an attack on the village of Sheikh Issa, just east of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:50 P.M.) – A group of left-wing Swedish members of parliament have handed in an official complaint against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing his government of war crimes against Turkey’s Kurdish minority. The five Scandinavian lawmakers, all from the Left and Green parties, came together on Tuesday morning to file the complaint, the first […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:20 P.M.) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) claims to have “confirmed evidence” that ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. According to the UK-based, pro-opposition Syrian War monitoring group, they have been able to confirm the death of the al-Baghdadi via sources based in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor who […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*Crispin Rovere* *Security, * What would happen? Are we talking World War 3? This analysis recommends war. It is shocking to put to print. However, with North Korea’s inexorable advance towards developing a nuclear-tipped ICBM, we enter the realm of bad choices. On balance, war on the peninsula is the least bad alternative. There are some months left for a brilliant diplomatic breakthrough that turns North Korea from the brink – these avenues must be energetically and exhaustively pursued. This analysis is presented on the fair assumption that such initiatives will fail. This ...more »

https://youtu.be/yvTg9wfzDFo This video is interesting, let me see if I've got it right. If Christians are anti LGBT then that prejudice needs to be confronted. An LGBT march would be a good thing. A march through a majority Muslim area is, however, deemed a provocation. Why is this provocative? Is it because a majority of Muslims are not big fans of LGBT rights? So why is confronting Christian prejudice a good thing but confronting Muslim prejudice provocative?

*BBC: **Mosul: Clashes continue as troops target IS 'holdouts'* Sporadic clashes have continued in the city of Mosul, despite the Iraqi government's declaration of victory against so-called Islamic State there. The US-led coalition supporting Iraqi forces said they were rooting out a "handful" of militants in the Old City. The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator told the BBC that up to 3,000 civilians were also still trapped in the area. Lise Grande said they were mostly disabled people, the elderly and children separated from their families. "Many of the people who are in that situat...more »

Do you remember a woman with the *nom de guerre* "Valley Girl" from early blogging days? She's been around the netroots for as long as there has been a netroots and I value her advise. She just wrote to me to tell me that she's been watching Randy Bryce's speeches on line and that in her opinion, he will be this generation's Bernie Sanders. That's big. Sunday we looked at how Randy has created-- seemingly in record time but in reality, over the course of years-- a platinum brand for himself, something the DCCC has been utterly incapable of helping their hapless batch of loser cand...more »

*THE ART OF THE (TRUMP AND PUTIN) DEAL* Say you’re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. Whether there was such a deal is being investigated. But if you are Putin and you *did* do a deal, what might Trump have agreed to do for you? 1. *Repudiate NATO*. NATO is the biggest thorn in your side – the alliance that both humiliates you and stymies your ambitions. Trump seemed intent to deliver on this during his recent European trip by bullying members about payments and seemingly not reaffirming Article 5 of the pact, which states that any attack on one NATO ally is...more »

The corporate media is in full Russophobic overdrive again. The over-hyped meetup between Trump and Putin in Hamburg last week spurted more gallons of high octane gas into the tank of official discourse, to wit: the Kremlin Has Meddled, Does Meddle, and Will Meddle in American Democracy Forever and Ever Amen. Elder CNN Situation Room Stentorian Wolf Blitzer, more breathless than usual on Monday afternoon, announced that Donald Trump Jr.'s gleeful response to an email claiming that Russians had dirt on Hillary is finally - finally! - exactly the proof we need... of the *possibility*...more »

Courtesy of NPR: *Robert Mueller has made no public comment since he was named to lead the Department of Justice investigation into Russian interference in last year's election. * *Instead, he has let his actions do the talking. The former FBI director and decorated U.S. Marine has submitted a budget and quietly hired an all-star team that includes 15 Justice Department prosecutors. And, a spokesman for Mueller said, he's not done bringing on new lawyers. * *That has gotten the attention of supporters of President Trump, who recently made an attack ad calling the investigation a ...more »

Journals have posted two corrections alongside papers by Brian Wansink, a food researcher whose work has lately come under fire. One of the corrected papers were among the initial batch that raised eyebrows last year; after Wansink praised the productivity of one of his researchers, critics suggested four papers contained critical flaws. The questions about […] The post More notices appear for embattled Cornell food researcher appeared first on Retraction Watch.

*CNN:** US, India and Japan begin naval exercises, as China looks on* New Delhi (CNN)A rising Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean has prompted the largest naval exercise the region has seen in more than two decades. The United States, Japan and India have deployed front-line warships, submarines and aircraft as part of the tri-nation Malabar exercises in the Bay of Bengal. Conducted annually since 1992, Malabar has grown in size and complexity in recent years to address what the US Navy describes as a "variety of shared threats to maritime security in the Indo-Asia Pacific." For...more »

*Reuters:* *The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.* The report came just days after the Iraqi army recaptured the last sectors of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which Baghdadi's forces overran almost exactly three years ago. Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Islamic State commanders on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa. But Washington said it could not corrobor...more »

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